Browns castoffs on Chiefs OL celebrate their win in Cleveland

Cleveland fans can be forgiven for wondering why so many players on the Kansas City Chiefs offensive line seemed so familiar. Four of their five starters have Browns ties.

Right tackle Mitchell Schwartz, right guard Andrew Wylie, center Austin Reiter and left guard Cam Erving all used to call Cleveland home before moving to Kansas City and taking over starting roles. They paved the way for the Chiefs offense to rack up 499 yards in the 37-21 win in Week 9.

Erving was a massive disappointment as a first-round center in Cleveland. He’s found new life with his position change in Kansas City.

“I wanted to go out and show everybody in that front office that I can play football, and (expletive) you if you think I can’t,” said Erving via KansasCity.com.

His vitriolic victory lap continued:

“They let Mitch Schwartz go, and he’s one of the best right tackles playing football. Me, up and down times, but I can play football. Austin Reiter can play football. Andrew Wylie can play football. But hey, that’s OK. At the end of the day, we came back, the guys that you threw away, and made a statement.”

Erving was guilty of two penalties (one declined), as was Schwartz. Yet they did enough to allow Kareem Hunt and Patrick Mahomes to gash the undermanned Browns defense, which played most of the game without five regular starters.

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